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Obama Screws the Greedy Vikram Pandits of Wall St

 America, Business  1 Response »
Feb 042009
 
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Wonderful. Wonderful.

Our President Barack Obama today said that top executives at companies receiving financial assistance from the tax-payers cannot be paid more than $500,000 per annum.

A long overdue reform, if you ask us.


Obama Screws 
Greedy Execs

Folks, it’s the greedy and incompetent executives of Wall Street that have brought the country to its knees.

And these greedy and incompetent fellas are being paid richly for their failures.

Yet mindless of the destruction they have wrought around the world, these shameless executives continue to engage in irresponsible behavior  - a new $50 million jet or lavish bonuses.

Financial institutions that have received tax-payer assistance under the U.S. Government’s TARP initiative include Citigroup (headed by Vikram Pandit), Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, AIG, JP Morgan Chase, WellsFargo and Morgan Stanley.

Here’s an excerpt from Obama’s address at the White House today:

We all need to take responsibility. And this includes executives at major financial firms who turned to the American people, hat in hand, when they were in trouble, even as they paid themselves customary lavish bonuses. As I said last week, this is the height of irresponsibility. It’s shameful. And that’s exactly the kind of disregard of the Continue reading »

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Salaam Bombay – An Indian Tragedy

 Bollywood  5 Responses »
Feb 042009
 
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If Danny Boyle had made Salaam Bombay, would the movie have been subjected to the same venomous attacks that some members of the Bollywood ignorati have heaped upon his new award-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire.

Most likely, yes. A lot of calumnies would have been heaped upon Danny.

After all, Danny is a gora, a westerner from the U.K. What does he know about India? Danny’s been in Bombay for only a few months. He’s merely out to strike it rich upon the backs of our poor street kids of Bombay.

Such would have been the reaction from some of our frothing-at-the-mouth, seething-with-jealousy, ranting-like-nuts, know-nothing Bollywood idiots back home.

No matter the depressing reality that much of what we see in Salaam Bombay or Slumdog Millionaire is very true. The lot of the poor kids in urban India is infinitely worse than the worst dickensian nightmare you can envision. Worse than what you see on the screen for 90 minutes in a dark room as you constantly dip your fingers into the large popcorn tub and sip that sickening cola amidst hypocritical sighs.

A Movie on Two Levels
We saw Salaam Bombay the other day (if you live in the U.S., the movie is available at the online DVD rental service Netflix), the third element in the troika of fine movies showing the hard lives of children in dreadful urban shanties (the other two are Cidade de Deus and Slumdog Millionaire).

Unlike most Bollywood, Kollywood or Hollywood balderdash, movies like Salaam Bombay ought to be seen on two levels – first as a movie and second as an indictment of the state for failing to deliver the most basic needs of its citizens.

Salaam Bombay, the Movie
Although not as visually compelling as Slumdog Millionaire, Salaam Bombay (1988) does its job more than adequately and is one of the few must-watch movies coming out of India.

Directed by Mira Nair when she was 29, Salaam Bombay was supposedly filmed entirely on the streets of Bombay including in the red-light area of Kamatipura – 52 locations in 52 days, according to the extra features on the DVD – and with a cast comprised mostly of street children, who underwent training for a short duration.

Salaam Bombay was Mira’s first feature film but you couldn’t tell seeing Continue reading »

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Naan Kadavul Movie Showtimes in USA

 Tamil Movies  4 Responses »
Feb 042009
 
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Naan Kadavul Review – Kadavule Kapathu

Here are the showtimes for Naan Kadavul Tamil movie, which is scheduled to release on February 6 in the U.S.

Directed by Bala, Naan Kadavul features Arya and Puja.

Naan Kadavul Movie Showtimes in Bay Area

Milipitas, CA

Serra Theatres – Read the Review
200 Serra Way #37
Milipitas, CA 95035
24 Hr Movie Hotline: 408-935-9266
Ph: 408-935-9674

Feb 5|5:45 PM|8:30 PM
Feb 6|5:30 PM|8:30 PM|11:15 PM
Feb 7|2:00 PM|5:00 PM|  8:00 PM|11:00 PM
Feb 8|2:00 PM|5:00 PM|  8:00 PM
Feb 9|8:00 PM
Feb10|8:00 PM
Feb11|8:00 PM
Feb12|8:00 PM
Click here for more movie showtimes in Bay Area
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Is Sanjay Jha’s Goose Cooked?

 Business  5 Responses »
Feb 032009
 
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Yes, we think Motorola co-CEO and the CEO of the company’s Mobile Devices unit Sanjay Jha has no hope.

This morning, Motorola announced its Q4 results and they are UGLY.

Motorola reported a loss of $3.6 billion ($1.57 per share) on sales of $7.1 billion in its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2008.

Following the pathetic performance, Motorola has suspended its quarterly cash dividend on the common stock with immediate effect.

Cell Phones – Horrible
The Mobile Devices unit that Sanjay Jha heads at Motorola is a Katrina-scale disaster.

Mobile Devices sales in the quarter were down 51% to $2.35 billion. The operating loss was $595 million compared to an operating loss of $388 million in the year-ago quarter. For the full year 2008, sales in the Mobile Devices unit were $12.1 billion, a 36% decrease compared to 2007, and the segment incurred an operating loss of $2.2 billion, compared to an operating loss of $1.2 billion in 2007.

In Q4, Motorola shipped 19.2 million handsets and estimates its share of the global handset market was 6.5%.

Pitiful
Motorola claims it continued to make progress on the smartphone roadmap and is on target to launch next-generation devices during the fourth quarter of 2009.

Well, talk is cheap and we’ve heard this baloney on future progress and improvements before.

Given the phenomenal success of Apple’s iPhone and the challenges from Continue reading »

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Luck by Chance – Unlucky at Box Office

 Bollywood, Box Office  9 Responses »
Feb 022009
 
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Luck by Chance, the new Indian movie by and on Bollywood, has not been lucky at the U.S. box office in its opening weekend.

Luck by Chance opened at No-32 and had a pitiful total opening weekend gross of $216,918 (source: boxofficemojo).

The movie opened in 61 theatres and had an average of $3,556.

Here’s how Luck by Chance fared compared to a few other prominent Bollywood movies in the opening weekend at the U.S. box office:

Even crap like Continue reading »

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Incredible India – 7

 Incredible India  10 Responses »
Feb 022009
 
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India is truly fertile soil for a cornucopia of those weird only-in-India stories. Here’s instalment 7 of Incredible India.

* A sick man in the South Indian state of Kerala died after the dilapidated stretcher on which he was placed broke into two and he fell to the ground. If the end result wasn’t so tragic, it’d be funny. Here, read the full story in the Hindu. (Thanks to Cool Frog_20)

* The Indian masses are literally and figuratively powerless. Six decades after Independence, Uttar Pradesh (the North Indian state from which at least seven Indian Prime Ministers hail), faces a daily power shortage of 2,500MW. And we are not even in the summer months yet. The state’s power crisis is going to get worse in the next fiscal year.

* You have a court case pending in India? Not to worry, Continue reading »

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WTF is this Pub Culture?

 General  11 Responses »
Feb 022009
 
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Indian buffoons of various hues including B.S.Yediyurappa (Karnataka Chief Minister), Ashok Chavan (Maharashtra Chief Minister), Anbumani Ramadoss (Union Health Minister), Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan Chief Minister), RSS secretary K.Narahari et al have been ranting and raving, fretting and fuming against the ‘Pub Culture’ after the unsavory incident in Mangalore where women customers were beaten up by biped monkeys belonging to the Ram Sena.

So WTF is this pub culture?

Is that a mere euphemism to criticize girls drinking at pubs and bars.

And what is wrong with women drinking or having a good time.

When politicians like Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi can have a chinna veedu, when Haryana politician Chander Mohan can become Chand Mohammad to have a second wife, when Continue reading »

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Incredible India 6 – Great Indian Navels

 Bollywood, General, Incredible India  6 Responses »
Feb 012009
 
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This instalment of Incredible India focuses on the Indian idee fixe with navels of our women.

For purely titillating reasons, Indian movie-makers and moviegoers have been fixated on the navels of our girls for several decades.

When you can’t show the mountains above or the valley below in their god-created pristine form, what else is left but the navel in between.

In countless Bollywood and Kollywood movies, directors have flaunted the navels of our Incredible Indian belles to the lecherous whistles and lascivious sighs of front-benchers and back-benchers, the young and the old, in village tents and city multiplexes.

Much to our immense jealousy, many a hero has buried his face into those delectable crevices of many a heroine or item girl.

Now, some Mahatma, who has more time to waste than even us, has stitched all those Great Indian Navels together and put them up on YouTube.

Click on the image below to see the Navel instalment video of Incredible India:


Image: YouTube

Having watched the above video, now tell us who you think has the Best Indian Navel?

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